I think Sid Barrets era was incredible, extremely talented music, with inovations exceeding Hendrix. After he dove off the deep end, it was Waters who directed the bands sound, and it was just as inovative, but in a much more highly political style, compared to the Barret years which were more abstract.

My favorite album. Wish you were here. Incidentely as far as my knowledge extends was the first album to criticize the music industry.

For me, for sure. I have thousands of CD's, records, albums. Gilmour is the man.

I know Divsion Bell always gets destroyed critically, but I LOVE that album. I remember, I had it, and it just sat around for like a year. Then I accidently played "lost for words," whew, that is maybe my favorite sone EVER. And Division Bell is definitely one of my favorite albums ever, after I REALY gave it a lot of tries.

Unfortunately folks, in the world of pop music, they ALL pander to sympathism, and lefty crapola. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeplin (maybe?), Pink Floyd. (Notice how all the greatest bands ever are from England?)

I think Sid Barrets era was incredible, extremely talented music, with inovations exceeding Hendrix. After he dove off the deep end, it was Waters who directed the bands sound, and it was just as inovative, but in a much more highly political style, compared to the Barret years which were more abstract.

My favorite album. Wish you were here. Incidentely as far as my knowledge extends was the first album to criticize the music industry.

Wish you were here was the first one I bought from them. That album is just impecible. I remember they were interviewing one of the members (it might of been Waters) and he said that Wish you were here was what he thought was their best album, musically.

I bought it and drove a few hours out to my cousins house--have alot of memories with that one. Great album.

I need the two Gilmour solos prior to "on an island." I just cant find them other than cduniverse.com.

There was some great stuff on those Gilmour solo's. I've heard great stuff about Waters solo's too, but have not picked them up, yet.

Roger Waters is an extreme left winger. But I've always thought that the extreme left actually border on the extreme right. The farther out you go the closer to a revolutionary you become. The ideologies are different but make no mistake both believe that gov't policies are not in the interest of the people, but the almighty dollar no matter what.

As far as Waters personal politics goes, in the Wall, he probably thought what happened to Pink was worst case scenario as a superstar plummets into madness. However, it seemed he did a little bit too good of a job with Pink's neo-nazi character, almost as if to say that in this day and age you can expect this because soon we'll have nowhere else to turn.

I have been a fan of Pink Floyd's music and a stout follower of all Solo projects of Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters. One that I found very interesting was Waters' "Amused to Death." In this concept album, Waters compares humans to being the subject in an experiment by the mass media. This addiction that people have with TV will ultimately be our undoing, I think we can all agree with that.

In this album he pulls no punches for Political Correctness for instance he uses words like: wetback, gook, and Japs and makes several statements involving jews. In one song called "Too Much Rope," he has a line that would normally send Jews into an uproar, it says, "You don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder." Almost as if to say, Hey, there were more than just Jews killed in WWII, namely his father.

There is also a song about the Tiananmen Square protests where chinese students died in protest of their communist-led gov'ts. In this he alludes to the communist party leaders as ones who "bought the front row seats on Calvary." Although he is by and large an atheist, that line sounds like an indictment of Jews to me.

The last song and the conclusion of the whole concept album is the title track Amused to Death where he seems to make the distinction of who the album is about when he says "Ooh, western woman, Ooh Western girl." Then the bitter end of the song and the album are:

And when they found our shadows
Grouped 'round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then, the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death